![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
axesladeFirst of the topics from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
splix. Rambly, as is my nature.
Fandom and I have had a very love-hate relationship. My first foray into 'real' writing was fanfic, most of which never saw the light of day (except for a few that got used as things for school). The first fandom I really got into via fanfic was Labyrinth--and I think I learned a lot about how *not* to write from that. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of really talented people writing Labyrinth and other fanfic...you just have to trudge through a lot of crap to find 'em. Even when you suppose that Labyrinth, like many fandoms, has very young people writing fanfic...argh. So I think the best thing fandom ever gave me was many lessons in good and not good writing and how to tell the difference. Without those lessons, I might still be writing Mary Sues in original fiction (and no, thank God, the greatest example of that went with the other computer so you can't see it. Trust me, you don't want o).
Unlike many people, though, I've managed to mostly avoid the crazier side of fandom. Considering I'm into Twilight, this is quite a feat. I think a big part of it is I really haven't been heavily involved in any of my fandoms in an interacting with others way. Yes, my first real dive into fandom was through a (now defunct) Labyrinth chat group which I was in for...two years? Probably a bit less. The people there were mostly older and I made a lot of great friends and learned a lot about life that way (it was also a wonderful way to spend Sunday nights for a person who had no friends). But in recent years, outside of joining Velvet Goldmine groups which are largely defunct before I get there and talking with the occasional Twifan (usually I get to know them before I find out they're into Twilight) fandom has been a very private thing for me. And I like it that way.
splix. Rambly, as is my nature.Fandom and I have had a very love-hate relationship. My first foray into 'real' writing was fanfic, most of which never saw the light of day (except for a few that got used as things for school). The first fandom I really got into via fanfic was Labyrinth--and I think I learned a lot about how *not* to write from that. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of really talented people writing Labyrinth and other fanfic...you just have to trudge through a lot of crap to find 'em. Even when you suppose that Labyrinth, like many fandoms, has very young people writing fanfic...argh. So I think the best thing fandom ever gave me was many lessons in good and not good writing and how to tell the difference. Without those lessons, I might still be writing Mary Sues in original fiction (and no, thank God, the greatest example of that went with the other computer so you can't see it. Trust me, you don't want o).
Unlike many people, though, I've managed to mostly avoid the crazier side of fandom. Considering I'm into Twilight, this is quite a feat. I think a big part of it is I really haven't been heavily involved in any of my fandoms in an interacting with others way. Yes, my first real dive into fandom was through a (now defunct) Labyrinth chat group which I was in for...two years? Probably a bit less. The people there were mostly older and I made a lot of great friends and learned a lot about life that way (it was also a wonderful way to spend Sunday nights for a person who had no friends). But in recent years, outside of joining Velvet Goldmine groups which are largely defunct before I get there and talking with the occasional Twifan (usually I get to know them before I find out they're into Twilight) fandom has been a very private thing for me. And I like it that way.
